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HOB PIGKING MACHINE.

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HOP PIGKING MAGHINE.

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tion and of great utility. And to that end tion --f--' connecting said arm with the said UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E."

E. DELOSS MILLS, OF CLINTON, AND LIONEL EMDIN, OF SYRACUSE, ASSIGNORS TO THE MILLS HOP-PICKING MACHINE COMPANY, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK. 5 v

HOP-VPQICKING MACHINE.

SPEOIFIGATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 524,333, dated August 14, 1894.

Application filed July 24, 1893- Serial No. 431,256- (No model.)

1'0 all whom it may concern: '0, is anapron upon the rear end of the Be it known that we, E. DELOss MILLS, of frame, suitably mounted and provided with Clinton, in the county of Oneida, and LIONEL means for rotating it for conveying the EMDIN, of Syracuse, in the county of Ononstripped vines and leaves to the rear of the 5 daga, in the State of New York, have invented machine. 1

newand useful Improvements in Hop-Pick- The endless apron -aupon the front ing Machines, of which the following, taken end of themachine, the apron c upon the in connection with the accompanying drawrear end of the frame, and the bark runings, is a full, clear, and exact description. ning transversely across themachine consti- 1o his invention relates to devices for picktute the feeding floor of the machine. ing or pulling hops from the vines. j d, are wings or side pieces of the machine Our object is to produce a device which to keep thevines and hops from falling over shall efiectively remove the hops from the the side of the machine. vines, thereby reducing the amount of leaves Erected upon the center of the machine and 15 which are removed therefrom to the minitransversely thereto is the bracket -Bhavmum and provide suitable means for separatinga concavo-convex out 0E O pivoted ing any of the leaves which may be removed thereto and mounted upon the shaft with the hops and conveying them to a re: e, is an arm secured to the top of said bracket ceptacle; cheap and durable in its'construcand having a spring or other elastic connec- .our invention consists in the'several newand cut ofi C-, so as to adapt it to engage yieldnovelfeatures and combination of parts hereingly with the feeding floor of the machine.

7 inafter described and which are specifically 1 g, are shafts mounted upon the front side of i vset forth in the claims hereunto annexed. the bracket B- and are providedwith e 5 It is constructed as follows, reference being brushes at regular intervals, or their entire o manner, preferably provided with standards brushes upon shaft g. We do not, ho

1 had totheaccompanyingdrawingsfin whichperiphery maybe covered with brushes or Figure 1, is a side elevation of the right bristles and are mounted directly over each side of the machine. Fig. 2, is aside viewof other so that thefends of said brushes meet its opposite side. Fig. 3, is a vertical section during rotation; suitable means being pro- 0 through the machine just to one side of the vided-upon the ends of the shafts for rotating center, enlarged. Fig. 4, is an end elevation them. of one of the brushes, enlarged. Fig. 5, is an h, are similar shafts provided withbrushes enlarged detail of the cam and arm which and mountedupon the rear face of the bracket operates the vibrating-cut off. Fig. 6 is a top having suitable means provided for ro- 3 5 plan view with such parts removed as obtating them. They are, however, provided struct the view of the operating parts, withpinions of less diameter than the pin- Similar letters and figures of reference inions upon the shafts 'gso that when they dicate corresponding parts. are set in motion by the mechanism herein- A, is a frame constructed in any ordinary after described they will rotate faster than the 0 '-1-' and base rails -2-=-to give it strength. ever, limit ourselves to the number of these Y Upon the forward end of the frame is an shafts or rotating brushes, as it will be very endless apron --a.-- traveling upon rollers evident that any number may be used. -3 and. serving to conduct the vines con- Neither do we confine ourselves to any par- 5 3: 45 taining the hops within the stripping meohticular construction thereof as it will be e'vianism hereinafter described. dent that various constructions and kinds of b, is a roller mounted vertically adjustable brushes may be used. a over the apron --abetween which and said Transversely across the frame is a main apron athe vines pass in their inward shaft -='-E having its right side provided 5o movement. This roller +11 may, however, with a wheel having sprockets thereon and be dispensed with. Suitable a s or rotating said wheeL The ends of the shafts g, and h and the ends of the wheel abovereferred to is rotated, all of the "wheels and rollers are set in motion.

Directly under these brushes is slidingly mounted a sieve -4- within the swinging shoe whose bottom is the sieve'6 having the, usual meshes therein of a size to freely admit the hop passing through. And transversely across the feeding floor of thesieve arecross bars -5-'fixed to said shoe. 6, is a smaller sieve mounted just below the sieve -4. These sieves are connected to eccentric --D- which in turn are secured upon the main shaft E of themachine.

Uponthe left-hand end of the upper shaft -g-is rigidly secured a cam wheel -.1I.

Upon the left-hand end of the shaft- 7 which carries the sleeve C- is mounted an arm -F adapted to be secured rigidly to, said shaft and having its opposite end adapted to travel upon the periphery, of said cam. wheel. For'the purpose of allowing thearm F-- to .travel freely upon the camwheel L' we may mount therein a roller -Z. Our invention is operated as follows: The? vines containing the hops are first placed upon the endless apron -==-G,--, whence they pass inwardly under the roller -band be tweenthe brushes or brush shafts gand -h-. When thevines are passing between said brushes the cam -t' engaging with the. arm F forces the cut off G'-- downinto engagement with the vines as they pass through and uponthe bar k running trans-v; versely across the machine, therebyholding the vines intermittently until the brushes have rubbed or'forced the hops therefrom; the hops falling down upon the sieve --4:-. The sieves being constantly moved backward-and forward the hop drops through one of the; meshes and hangs by the leaf (provided a leaf has been taken'olf with it) and as the'mesh passes by 'thebars -5- the hop and leaf are separated, when the hop passes down onto the sieve -6- and finally through the meshes thereof onto the endless apron which is rotated by passing a belt over one-of its rollers, connecting it with the main portion of the machine. The hop thus separated travels upwardly as indicated by the arrow'and is thrown into the receptacle H.

What we claim'as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a hop picking machine, the combination with the frame and the front and rear portions, of a bracket mounted transversely thereon, brushes rotatively mounted therein having their peripheries in contact,.means'for I rotating them. simultaneously, a cam wheel rigidly secured upon one-end of saidbrushes,

a cut off concave-convex in crosssection rotatively mounted in said'brac-ket'and'having an arm adapted to engage with the-cam wheel 2. In a hoppicking m:achine,tthe combi-nation with a frame, of a bracketmounted transversely thereon, brushes secured thereon having their periphery in contact'andmeans for rotatingithem,-a cam wheel rigidly secured upon one end of -said'brushes,. a'cut-ofi con-u cavo-convex in cross section'mounted ins-aid bracket and having anarmsecured to one end of its shaft adapted to engage :withnthe. cam Wheel, an arm secured .at the top of said bracket and an elastic connection between it and the sleeve, as set forth.

In witness whereof we have hereunto :set our handsthis 18th day of J uly,'18.93.

' SAMUEL A. WANDELL,

HOWARD P. DENISON. 

